Historic Day for Marriage Equality

Today, the Connecticut Supreme Court took an historic step by joining California and Massachusetts in the fight to provide marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. The Court's decision to overturn Connecticut's ban on equal marriage rights indicates that all across the country, communities are reaching the conclusion that separate is not equal, and that we should not harm our friends, neighbors and coworkers by denying them equal treatment under the law.

Our task now is to protect marriage equality at the ballot box in California by voting No on Proposition 8.

Please join me and support the No on 8 campaign.

Tune in this Saturday at 11AM PST for my radio show on Green 960 AM in the Bay Area or stream it online. The founder of Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas is my first guest. We talk presidential politics, marriage equality and the economy. Markos is predicting a blow out for Obama and the Democrats in November:

"See, here's the deal -- we're going to win the White House, we're going to win big in the Senate, and we're going to rack up big gains in the House. Republicans know this and are preparing for the worst. Now think of 2004 -- we really thought Kerry was going to pull it off. Remember that? And remember how utterly devastated we were when Bush pulled it off? The pain was so much worse because we expected to win." - Markos 10/09/08

But Markos says the 2010 election is another story. Markos thinks that Democrats have only two years to radically transform this country or they may lose a number of seats in 2010.

In the second half of the show, California Senate President pro Tempore-elect Darrell Steinberg joins the show to talk California politics. Pro Tempore-elect Steinberg talks about improving education in California, the state budget and what his goals are for his new position.

Listen live this Saturday at 11AM on Green 960 AM.

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Comments

[GregJL]

Just keep focusing on the fact that no one should be denied the right to marry the person they love. Keep the fram there, and don't let the conservatives shift the focus. Don't argue it from their view, just keep on message. Make it about the fundamental human right to be with the one you love.

[Otaku1031]

Thank you, Mayor Newsom! You are a vocal leader in a fight that has few people willing to come to the forefront in demanding the rights of LGBT citizens. As a SF Bay Area resident I applaud your efforts, and congratulate the State Supreme Court of Connecticut for their decision. Many happy returns to the upcoming newlyweds in CT!

NO on Prop 8!

[sjmaureen]

Mayor Newsom, I do not know if you will ever see this but there is something I would like to share with you. A few years ago when San Fransisco started to perform gay marriages my young son was coming to terms with being gay, I didnt know it because he was afrsid to tell anyone. I found out the next year and he told me that at the time of your public support of his right to marry he had been on the verge of a deep deppression and you literally saved him. You will always be his hero, he is now politically active, the president of his campus students for justice and working with community organizers. I just wanted to thank you.

[LiberalDemIda]

Today, my sons and I are mailing out our application for an absentee ballot, Mayor Newsom.

We can't wait to cast our votes for Obama/Biden and our House Representative Hilda Solis. We are so excited!

Our friends and family will be casting our vote to defeat the unconstitutional Prop 8, the measure to make same-sex marriages illegal in California once again.

We understand that to support Proposition 8 is to support discrimination and since we've all been discriminated against in our lives, we know how painful that can be and don't want others to experience it.

Thank you so much for fighting the good fight against bigotry in our great state.

VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 8! VOTE NO ON DISCRIMINATION!